Berlin Film Festival Awards

Best Picture

Year Winner Recipients
2024 Dahomey
2023 On the Adamant
2022 Alcarràs
2021 Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
2020 There Is No Evil
2019 Synonyms
2018 Touch Me Not
2017 On Body and Soul
2016 Fire at Sea
2015 Taxi
2014 Black Coal, Thin Ice
2013 Child's Pose
2012 Caesar Must Die
2011 A Separation
2010 Honey
2009 The Milk of Sorrow
2008 Elite Squad
2007 Tuya's Marriage
2006 Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
2005 U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
2004 Head-On
2003 In This World
2002 Bloody Sunday
2001 Intimacy
2000 Magnolia
1999 The Thin Red Line
1998 Central Station
1997 The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996 Sense and Sensibility
1995 Fresh Bait
1994 In the Name of the Father
1993 The Wedding Banquet
1992 Grand Canyon
1991 The House of Smiles
1990 Larks on a String
1989 Rain Man
1988 Red Sorghum
1987 The Theme
1986 The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial
1985 Wetherby
1984 Love Streams
1983 Ascendancy
1982 Veronika Voss
1981 Faster, Faster
1980 Heartland Reggae
1979 David
1978 Ascensor
1977 The Ascent
1976 Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
1975 Adoption
1974 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1973 Distant Thunder
1972 The Canterbury Tales
1971 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1969 Early Works
1968 Who Saw Him Die?
1967 The Departure
1966 Cul-de-sac
1965 Alphaville
1964 Dry Summer
1963 Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1962 A Kind of Loving
1961 La Notte
1960 El Lazarillo de Tormes
1959 The Cousins
1958 Wild Strawberries
1957 12 Angry Men
1956 Invitation to the Dance
1955 The Rats
1954 Hobson's Choice
1953 The Wages of Fear
1952 One Summer of Happiness